Sami
CREATOR
13 days ago
Project Update: Nearing the End!
✦Hello again lovely friends! ✦
Almost all orders have been shipped out and most have already arrived at their destinations!
If you havent received your Wispwood pins yet, PLEASE CHECK YOUR CARDS/SURVEYS. We still have several people who have not filled out surveys and several whose cards did not go through! You have been sent many reminders, and if this is not fixed in the next 2 weeks, you will not receive your pins.
If you're one of the few that did your survey and your card was charged and you haven't received your pins, don't fret! There's just a few stragglers to ship out next week from those who have either filled out their surveys late or a few international orders where my shipping service is having troubles buying a label for your location, but I've worked out an alternative and the rest of these orders will be going out next week!
If you didn't back for one of the pins but would love to add more of the wispwood pins to your collection? The will be up in my online store later this year! I'll post an update on my social media when the shop gets updated so keep an eye out on my instagram or bluesky if you're wanting to pick up another pin or few later.
If you havent received your Wispwood pins yet, PLEASE CHECK YOUR CARDS/SURVEYS. We still have several people who have not filled out surveys and several whose cards did not go through! You have been sent many reminders, and if this is not fixed in the next 2 weeks, you will not receive your pins.
If you're one of the few that did your survey and your card was charged and you haven't received your pins, don't fret! There's just a few stragglers to ship out next week from those who have either filled out their surveys late or a few international orders where my shipping service is having troubles buying a label for your location, but I've worked out an alternative and the rest of these orders will be going out next week!
If you didn't back for one of the pins but would love to add more of the wispwood pins to your collection? The will be up in my online store later this year! I'll post an update on my social media when the shop gets updated so keep an eye out on my instagram or bluesky if you're wanting to pick up another pin or few later.
✦ The Shipping & Quality Checking ✦
These last few months have been a wild ride; between needing to get the remakes done, then prepping and packing pins, while also jumping between several conventions both local and out of state for me, then of course dealing with catching a cold more then once... on top of any other commission work or otherwise I had going on! I'm so very happy to be able to be saying we're finally at the end.
Wispwood was my 2nd fundraising project ever, and with my first project just being for standard sized 8 pins... the workload difference, figuring out the process of all of the little ins and outs of something of this scale has been such an adventure.
Needless to say, this was by far the biggest project I have ever taken on and I just wanted to say a huge thank you for your love of my work and your immense patience as I sort through all the ups and downs and winding ways of pin making! I've 1000% learned a lot from it, both in the ways that worked well, and in ways that I could have done better, so I'm excited to take that knowledge forward to future projects.
If we count each mini pin individually, Wispwood funded 39 different pins. And the amount of each I had to order averaged about 200 pins each to have stock for each one of you, and to have some left over that will be at conventions and in my online store? Was almost 8000 enamel pins total! Thats HUGE. I didn't have a dining room for weeks!
With the mass amount of pins I even recruited some friends and family a few times to sit down and help me quality check a little faster. Finding out that the motions of putting pins on backing cards was flaring up my carpel tunnel and slowing me down definitely tossed some complexities in the process, so future projects I'll be planning more on hiring some friends and family to help me with the process so I don't get so worn down as easily from it.
Wispwood was my 2nd fundraising project ever, and with my first project just being for standard sized 8 pins... the workload difference, figuring out the process of all of the little ins and outs of something of this scale has been such an adventure.
Needless to say, this was by far the biggest project I have ever taken on and I just wanted to say a huge thank you for your love of my work and your immense patience as I sort through all the ups and downs and winding ways of pin making! I've 1000% learned a lot from it, both in the ways that worked well, and in ways that I could have done better, so I'm excited to take that knowledge forward to future projects.
If we count each mini pin individually, Wispwood funded 39 different pins. And the amount of each I had to order averaged about 200 pins each to have stock for each one of you, and to have some left over that will be at conventions and in my online store? Was almost 8000 enamel pins total! Thats HUGE. I didn't have a dining room for weeks!
With the mass amount of pins I even recruited some friends and family a few times to sit down and help me quality check a little faster. Finding out that the motions of putting pins on backing cards was flaring up my carpel tunnel and slowing me down definitely tossed some complexities in the process, so future projects I'll be planning more on hiring some friends and family to help me with the process so I don't get so worn down as easily from it.
✦ Next Steps ✦
Over the next week I'll be shipping out the remaining handful of orders! It's only a handful of orders so it'll be quick and easy, then I'll be setting my sights on what comes next!
I've already gotten a few questions if there will be more pins made in this theme, and I honestly and truly cannot overstate how much I appreciate your love for this magical little world of mine, but also, yes! I have many more plans for adventures in Wispwood! I have sorted out some of the logistics side of it in my process that something of this scale should be much easier for me to work through, and I'm working away on some more exciting things set in the world of Wispwood, so keep an eye out for more info on that soon! <3
I've already gotten a few questions if there will be more pins made in this theme, and I honestly and truly cannot overstate how much I appreciate your love for this magical little world of mine, but also, yes! I have many more plans for adventures in Wispwood! I have sorted out some of the logistics side of it in my process that something of this scale should be much easier for me to work through, and I'm working away on some more exciting things set in the world of Wispwood, so keep an eye out for more info on that soon! <3
✦ Thank You! ✦
With the exception of only a few straggling orders to ship out, this project is completed! Thank you from the very bottom of my heart for all the love and support for my magical little guys! It absolutely means the world to me to have the support I did with this project, as I wouldnt have been able to make these without you.
I hope that the rest of your year is lovely and filled with joy, wonder, and adventures of your own. <3
- Sami / Wisparia
I hope that the rest of your year is lovely and filled with joy, wonder, and adventures of your own. <3
- Sami / Wisparia
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